Software Engineer - Backend
Superblocks
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Posted:
April 5, 2023
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Remote
About the position
Superblocks is a platform for developers to build internal tools quickly and securely. They are looking for an experienced engineer to scale and secure their distributed code execution engine, architect and scale their scheduled jobs and workflows infrastructure, optimize the performance of their open-source core integration execution engine, and build a reliable and fault-tolerant infrastructure to help scale with customer demands. The ideal candidate should be experienced in leveraging public or private cloud infrastructure to build and operate cloud-native applications and APIs, an expert in NodeJS, Express, and Postgres, and highly driven by building features and improvements in a secure, well-tested, and performant way.
Responsibilities
- Scale and secure the distributed code execution engine
- Architect and scale the scheduled jobs and workflows infrastructure
- Optimize the performance of the open-source core integration execution engine
- Build a reliable and fault-tolerant infrastructure to help scale with customer demands
- Architect new services and APIs that power the app and are used by all customers
- Enable a plug and play model with new integrations without the need to restart service or manual upgrades
- Build an integrations framework that supports running declaratively defined integrations without writing code
- Ensure zero downtime for upgrades of integrations
- Partner closely with customers to ensure ease of deployment and operation of the OPA
Requirements
- Scale and secure distributed code execution engine
- Architect and scale scheduled jobs and workflows infrastructure
- Optimize performance of open-source core integration execution engine
- Build reliable and fault-tolerant infrastructure
- Architect new services and APIs
- Enable plug and play model with new integrations
- Build integrations framework that supports running declaratively defined integrations without writing code
- Ensure zero downtime for upgrades of integrations
- Partner closely with customers to ensure ease of deployment and operation of the OPA
- Able to discuss and debate strategic engineering/product decisions live with the team
- Experienced in leveraging public or private cloud infrastructure to build and operate cloud-native applications and APIs
- Expert in NodeJS, Express, Postgres
- Self-starter driven by customer empathy
- Intimately familiar with SaaS architectures, cloud storage (EBS, S3), security, networking, authentication (OAuth2, SSO) and deployment
- Highly driven by building features and improvements in a secure, well-tested, and performant way
- Bonus: Experienced in working with systems like Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Redis, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Airflow, Datadog.